iCANN - Respect Our Privacy

[Dennis Morrison <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN,

This message is in regards to the proposed rules governing companies that 
provide WHOIS privacy services (as set forth in the Privacy and Policy Services 
Accreditation Issues Policy document):

As a small business owner, whose services are provided 100% online and from my 
home office, it’s bad enough we have to publish our home address with our DBA 
requests.  Now you want to force us to publish our private information to the 
world at large via the WHOIS database.

As anyone with a number of domains in service would know, the abuse of the 
WHOIS database is easy to spot.  I use email addresses created with one purpose 
- registrar information.  A large amount of spam is received via these email 
addresses due to the WHOIS database abuse.

I urge you to respect internet users' rights to privacy and due process. 
- Everyone deserves the right to privacy.
- No one’s personal information should be revealed without a court order, 
regardless of whether the request comes from a private individual or law 
enforcement agency. 

Private information should be kept private. Thank you.